Category: Deacon Mike Teskey

Photos of the Feast

Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, community, Deacon Mike Teskey, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Mary, Moments in Time, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Justin McCreedy OSB, Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. This is the first year since 1891 that no Mass will be celebrated for this feast at what was once the parish of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Tacoma. I’m feeling melancholy today, so I thought I’d post some photos from past celebrations of what was our patronal […]

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Year of the Eucharist

Archbishop Paul Etienne, Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg, Bishop Peter J. Elliott, Deacon Mike Teskey, General Instruction of the Roman Missal, Holy Cross Church in Tacoma, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Meditations, Moments in Time, Pope Benedict XVI, The Sacred Liturgy

Archbishop Paul Etienne Archbishop Paul Etienne of Seattle has proclaimed a “Year of the Eucharist” to begin on the external Solemnity of Corpus Christi, this coming Sunday. In his recent pastoral letter The Work of Redemption, he says: During the coming year, I ask every Catholic and every parish community to commit themselves to deepening our understanding and experience of […]

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Holy Week Marathon

community, Deacon James Fish, Deacon Mike Teskey, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Rev. Martin Bourke, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

I joke sometimes that Holy Week for an MC is like running a marathon. So this year, I used my FitBit tracking and figured out the distance I walked, starting with our Palm Sunday rehearsals and ending on Easter Sunday. This year, I clocked about 70km – that’s 43 miles. Given that a marathon is 26 miles, I actually walked […]

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Schedule for Holy Week

Annual, Chant, community, Deacon James Fish, Deacon Mike Teskey, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Prayer, Rev. Martin Bourke, The Sacred Liturgy

The following is the Holy Week schedule for the parishes of Holy Rosary and Visitation in Tacoma, Washington. It’s less jam-packed than previous years, but there’s still a lot here! Wednesday Tenebræ is not to be missed. And of course, the Holy Triduum is essentially one giant liturgy (with some serious overnight breaks) that begins with the Introit of the […]

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Our 2018 in Review

2018 transitions in Tacoma, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg, Blog Ephemera, Camino, community, Deacon James Fish, Deacon Mike Teskey, Family, Francine my love, Fun, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Pistachio House, Rev. Caleb Insco F.S.S.P., Rev. Francis Xavier Kikomeko, Rev. Martin Bourke, Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Sacred Liturgy Conference

This has been a crazy year. Here at Pistachio House, we had designated 2018 as the “Year of Hygge“. This was going to be the year that we concentrated on coziness. Pistachio House would be finally made into the cozy home we imagined. There would be coffee cake, walks, and new furnishings. It started out strongly enough, and it certainly […]

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One Week On

2018 transitions in Tacoma, Deacon Mike Teskey, Francine my love, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Rev. Michael Wagner

It is a week since Father Wagner collapsed and was taken to hospital. Since then, his parishes of Holy Rosary and Visitation have had hour-long holy hours/prayer vigils, alternating every night. These are continuing. At Holy Rosary, we somewhat impulsively put his biretta on the altar. Many people were profoundly moved by this gesture, so it has remained there since, […]

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Schedule for Holy Week

Chant, community, Deacon Mike Teskey, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Prayer, RCIA, Rev. Michael Wagner, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

The following is the Holy Week schedule for the parishes of Holy Rosary and Visitation in Tacoma, Washington. It’s less jam-packed than previous years, but there’s still a lot here! Wednesday Tenebræ is not to be missed. And of course, the Holy Triduum is essentially one giant liturgy (with some serious overnight breaks) that begins with the Introit of the […]

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A Liturgical Lent: a Review and a Look Forward

Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, Chant, Deacon Mike Teskey, Divine Office, Francine my love, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Moments in Time, RCIA, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Jerry Sherbourne, Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Review, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

At my parish of Holy Rosary in Tacoma, we had a lot going on for this first weekend of Lent. Think of this as a look into the life of a parish pursuing the vision of the New Liturgical Movement during Lent. You could almost consider this a snapshot review of our parish liturgical life. Friday Although not strictly liturgical, […]

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Initial Reflections on the Quasquicentennial

Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, Chant, community, Deacon Mike Teskey, Francine my love, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Mary, Moments in Time, Quasquicentennial, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy, Vocation

This past Sunday, my parish of Holy Rosary celebrated its 125th anniversary – our Quasquicentennial. The project for this celebration was started several years ago by Dr Michael Barkley, a gentleman from the parish who deserves all credit for getting this ball rolling. His great-grandparents were in fact the first couple married at the parish, back in October of 1891. […]

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